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Your script, right under the camera.
Brow is a teleprompter that lives in your MacBook's notch. You read, and in the video you're looking straight into the lens.
Free for 7 days, no card needed. macOS 14 or later.
Made for videos with slides
Most notch prompters scroll one long text. Brow knows your script has parts, and that you switch slides while you talk.
- Your slides drive the script
- Add one line to your HTML slides. Press → for the next slide and Brow brings up its block, so you never reach for a second shortcut.
- One slide, one take
- Brow stops at the end of each block and puts the text back for a retake. Record a short in pieces and glue the clips.
- Scripts are just files
- Markdown in a folder you choose, blocks split by
---. Write in any editor, keep them in git, nothing is locked inside the app.
How a take goes
- Write the scriptPlain Markdown. Put
---between blocks, one block per slide. - Hover the notchThe panel slides out. Press Start or ⌃⌥P and get a 3, 2, 1.
- Read to the lensBrow scrolls at your speed or follows your voice. Put the mouse on the panel to hold it.
What it does
- Follows your voice
- Scrolls as you speak, in English or Russian. Stop to think and it waits.
- Stays out of the video
- The panel is hidden from screen recording. Tested with Cap; check your recorder once.
- Scroll or blocks
- Smooth scrolling at a speed you set, or one block at a time.
- Holds when you hover
- Put the mouse on the panel to stop mid-take, move it away and the text rolls on.
Hands stay off the mouse
- ⌃⌥P
- Start, pause and resume
- ⌃⌥↑ ⌃⌥↓
- Faster, slower
- ⌃⌥← ⌃⌥→
- Previous, next block
- ⌃⌥V
- Follow my voice
- ⌃⌥H
- Stop the take or hide the panel
Price
$10a month, then $15
Launch price: subscribe before January 1 and you keep $10 a month for as long as you stay subscribed. From January 1 it's $15. Cancel anytime.
Every feature is free for 7 days, no card needed. After that, subscribe on Polar and paste the key from your email into Brow → Settings → License. One key works on up to 3 Macs.
Opening Brow the first time
Brow isn't signed by Apple yet, so macOS stops it on the first launch. It takes a minute, once:
- Move Brow to ApplicationsOpen Brow.dmg and drag Brow onto the Applications folder next to it.
- Open it and press DonemacOS says it can't check the app. That's expected.
- Allow it in System SettingsGo to Privacy & Security, scroll down and press Open Anyway. From then on Brow opens normally and its icon sits in the menu bar.